How do I Setup my @haas or @mba Alias as my Default Email Address?

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All Haas users are automatically set up with a bMail account once they are admitted to a Haas program or are hired at Haas. However, along with the bMail account,  Haas graduate students, faculty and staff also get a  Haas email alias.  These email aliases usually end in @mba.berkeley.edu if you are a graduate student, or @haas.berkeley.edu if you are faculty or staff.  By default your bMail address (the email address with the @berkeley.edu ending) is your default email address when you login to bMail, but you can switch your Haas alias to be the default address if you like.  

For Haas graduate students we do recommend that you set up your @mba.berkeley.edu alias as your default email address on bMail-- since this email address will be your Haas lifetime email address once you graduate.

To set up  your @mba or @haas email alias as your default email address on bMail, please follow the steps below:

  1. Log in to your bMail account, then click on the gear icon in the upper right hand corner, and select  “Settings”.
  2. Next, go to Accounts.
  3. Under “Change Account Settings” go to Step 5 if you see your @haas or @mba alias listed.  Otherwise, if your Haas alias is not listed yet, click on the link "Add another email address" to add it.


  4. At the next window you will see the following dialogue box. Enter the Haas email alias you would like to add. Please note that you must enter the alias address exactly as it was created.  If you are not sure what it is, you can view it under your bConnected Google account's Personal Info



    Click "Next Step" when done.  An email might be send to your @berkeley address to verify that you own this alias.  If necessary, please go back to your email account and click on the link you were sent to confirm that this is your address.

  5. Your Haas alias should be listed under "Send mail as". Click on the “default” option by your @mba.berkeley.edu  or @haas.berkeley.edu account to make that account your default account under bMail.



  6. Be sure to also select the radio button “Always reply from default address  ( currently xxx@mba.berkeley.edu)".

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